Post a new slang word/phrase
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Not that new, but ''spill the tea.'' (meaning - to not hold back any details of an event, or secret you're keeping; can also border on asking someone to share gossip)
Example: C'mon, how did the office party go last week? I need to know. Spill the tea!
Example: C'mon, how did the office party go last week? I need to know. Spill the tea!
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Not that new, but ''spill the tea.'' (meaning - to not hold back any details of an event, or secret you're keeping; can also border on asking someone to share gossip)
Example: C'mon, how did the office party go last week? I need to know. Spill the tea!
Sorry never heard
Only spill the beans
Yea, guess “beans” has been replaced with tea. Pretty much the same meaning. ^_^Sorry never heard
Only spill the beans
Schrödinger’s Text
The philosophical thought exercise used by men and women, waiting for a text that states “If you turn your phone off the text is both received and not received until you turn it back on and see”. This thought exercise is exceptionally useful when you are waiting and obsessing over a text.
Hmm, that's a funny one.
The philosophical thought exercise used by men and women, waiting for a text that states “If you turn your phone off the text is both received and not received until you turn it back on and see”. This thought exercise is exceptionally useful when you are waiting and obsessing over a text.
Hmm, that's a funny one.
To tell you the truth "tea" stands for T and T stands for "truth".
Honestly
https://grammarhow.com/spill-the-tea-meaning-origin/
Didn't know that history! Most people use it when asking someone to share the gossip or the hearsay they've heard. Interesting how ''truth'' turned into gossip over time. Gossip is often anything but truthful.To tell you the truth "tea" stands for T and T stands for "truth".
Honestly
https://grammarhow.com/spill-the-tea-meaning-origin/
Me neither.If I was wondering where that "tea" came from I might have guessed the Boston Tea PartyDidn't know that history! Most people use it when asking someone to share the gossip or the hearsay they've heard. Interesting how ''truth'' turned into gossip over time. Gossip is often anything but truthful.
"Spilling the beans" seems to have a far longer chain of derivation ,going back as far as the birth of democracy according to that link.
"We've got trouble, right here in River City
and that starts with T and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool."
-- Professor Harold Hill
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I searched for Harold Hill and landed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Man.